pearls and swines bereft of me

Am in a mega cheesed off mood today. There is only one thing and one thing alone that has the power to make me this miserable - Nero, and ofcourse the harddrive crashing. That happened to me thrice the past year, so I got a nice fancy HDD(External Hard Drive) and then like the genius I am encryted the files just aisai to save space and when the computer crashed again, inspite of having backups I locked myself out of ALL the pictures and movies and music.

Sean(were in the same school but became friends only in college) jokes that the HDD is my boyfriend and he'll tell this story to anyone who'll listen about how I apparently said that I felt as though someone had broken up with me when the computer crashed. haha. Not funny :shakes head:

Basically, I know a little bit about computer stuff, I mean I can dsimantle the jumbo of wires and plug them all back in(not much of an accomplishment, just saying), I know about seeds and peers and torrents(which most people do) and I do stupid things with pictures(which every blogger does) and sometimes while surfing I like to believe that I've caught glimpses of some of the darkest corners of the internet(no not porn you nimrod, something along the lines of what Artemis Fowl did while looking for fairy gold.) But Nero? Makes me want to pull my hair out.

See I don't even use CDs, just keep stuff on the HDD but, in those rare moments when you want to watch something with someone, there arises the need to share. /philosophical, not.

Tomorrow, two of my school friends Kai and Fly are coming over, and we've planned to have a movie marathon(Operation Dinner Out) and I went and bought a stack of blank CDS and a whole bunch of junk food (side note - remember fryums? those bobby type things, which you'd put on your fingers and eat at birthday parties? found em!) Anyway, thought I'd burn the movies onto discs so that we could watch them on the wide wide screen of the TV but oh no, no no, fucking Nero has other plans for me, like saying, due to patent registration issues, mpeg4 decoding is not possible, ARGH, which is just a random arbitary excuse because I've installed most of the codecs for all those fundoo video files and no program has ever created such a god awful fuss before. Done everything I could think of - trawled message boards, uninstalled and reinstalled, tried using it from the laptop but nada.

Oh, Perfidy.